this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
49 points (91.5% liked)

Selfhosted

56957 readers
712 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

  7. No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Hello! I never used *arr stack, and was interested into it, but one thing is stopping me. I see a lot of articles like how it is Netflix (or any other ONLINE theater) replacement, but as I see it is not online. I see two big factors that stops me from trying seerr + jellyfin (and other stuff in between):

  1. You have two switch between those apps to search and then watch.
  2. You can't watch media before it's completely downloaded.

I imagine sitting on coach, searching for show. Then you want to watch some, and then you have to wait half an hour for full episode (or even season?) to download. And then you can realize that you not into it and have to repeat all the steps above. Is my expectation correct? Please don't consider this as negative opinion. Just want to know what to expect. I remember an app called "popcorn time" that does not have that flaws.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 55 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

You're right, it's for building a private library, not a "what's new to watch now" stream. There are other tools for that, like stremio or real-debrid.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 9 points 3 hours ago

Once you adjust it works well. The whole "find something at random to watch" paradigm is not really how *arr works, but if a coworker mentions a show I can have it ready when I get home.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You can connect your *arr profiles to monitor external lists of new titles by pointing the list manager to something like MDBList. They might not be as instantaneous as you might like, with a 24hr refresh period, but it's pretty much a 0.99:1 Netflix replacement for me

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

It would be nice to have streamio work with your arr stack.

It's a great user experience, but the android app gives you no control over the torrents, doesn't handle port forwarding & isn't really opensource AFAICT.